All Ventures
Cedar Rapids Community Magnet High School
Entrepreneur: Noreen Bush
Nonprofit | Founded: 1855
Cedar Rapids Community School District serves 17,000 students in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In August of 2023, it will add a Community Magnet High School to its educational offerings. The school intends to serve 400 students at full enrollment across grades 9-12. This high school will provide students with the opportunity to learn in and with their community and pursuing learning in more integrated and authentic ways.
Celebrate EDU
Entrepreneur: Jenny Anderson
Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
Celebrate EDU provides individuals with disabilities the skills needed to become entrepreneurs. Celebrate EDU’s new initiative will provide curricula to create group-based microenterprises for youth with learning differences in high school. The goal is to introduce entrepreneurship to students and encourage leadership development through business education.
Center City Public Charter Schools
Entrepreneur: Russ Williams
Nonprofit | Founded: 2008 | Visit the Site
Center City Public Charter Schools empower students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout Washington D.C. Center City PCS teaches a broad liberal arts and humanities curriculum to students in PK-8th grade.
Center for Love and Justice
Entrepreneur: Kaleb Rashad, Melissa Daniels, Nikki Hinostro
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
The Center for Love and Justice partners with existing school districts to advance equity for K-12 students through Anti-Racist Deeper Learning. Anti-Racist Deeper Learning involves students doing authentic work while developing the democratic agency to identify, describe, and dismantle oppressive systems and create them anew. The Center provides tools, methods, maps, and coaching to support teachers, school leaders, and communities to achieve these outcomes over the course of a 3-year partnership. Some of these initiatives include Learning through Projects, Making Learning Public, and Activating Student Voice.
Centervention
Entrepreneur: Tim Huntley
For-profit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
Centervention was part of the Expanded Definition of Student Success Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Centervention’s online games to help students in grades K-8 practice and improve social and emotional skills.
Central Falls Dual Language School
Entrepreneur: Elisa Rivera
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021
The Central Falls Dual Language Academy is a public school that will launch in Central Falls, Rhode Island in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve 260 students at full enrollment across grades 7-12. The Academy will be a learning environment where young people are respected, honored, and encouraged to value their individual and collective roots. The Academy will be a space where we create the relationships, conditions, structures, and opportunities to develop bilingual advocates for social change – we are empowering our own guardians of equity!
Charlotte Bilingual Preschool
Entrepreneur: Banu Valladares
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Charlotte Bilingual Preschool is a Latinx-led, dual language early childhood education provider in Charlotte, NC. They are building a Bilingual Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Program to meet Mecklenburg County’s need for quality, bilingual early childhood teachers and educators. Their program recruits future educators from the local Latinx community with a particular focus on their current students parents and families and provides participants with individualized guidance and tailored pathways to become licensed and credentialed Early Childhood Education teachers.
Charlotte Lab School
Entrepreneur: Mary Moss Brown
Nonprofit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
Charlotte Lab Schools opened two public charter schools which are both based in Charlotte, NC that will eventually serve over 1000 students in grades K-12. Charlotte Lab provides a student-centered, engaging, project-based college preparatory foundation in a small, nurturing, partial language immersion setting. Charlotte Lab is designed to meet the needs of 21st century students through authentic learning, individualization and personalization, global awareness, metacognitive skill development, and innovation.
Charter Board Partners
Entrepreneur: Carrie Irvin
Nonprofit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
Charter Board Partners (CBP) brings new talent into education reform leadership by recruiting individuals to join public charter school boards. CBP connects charter schools with dedicated individuals who bring relevant skills, experience, and leadership capacity. In turn, CBP provides these individuals with a meaningful, skills-based volunteer opportunity, access to training and tools as they join boards, and the opportunity to build their personal and professional networks.
Chicago International Charter School
Nonprofit | Founded: 1997 | Visit the Site
Chicago International Charter School’s core purpose is to offer Chicago families excellent and innovative school choices where their children thrive every day. Through a portfolio model of 14 innovative and diverse schools, we serve 8,300 students and offer varied and high-quality options to Chicago families. This organization participated in the second cohort of our ‘Transcend+NewSchools Collaborative’ – a multi-faceted nine-month program that guided districts and charter network leaders through a process to reimagine their schools.
Chicago International Charter Schools
Entrepreneur: Beth Purvis
Nonprofit | Founded: 1997 | Visit the Site
Chicago International Charter Schools is a charter management organization serving over 9,000 students in grades K-12 in Chicago, IL.
Chicago Public Schools: Lead with CPS
Entrepreneur: Dr. Janice Jackson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Launched in 2019, Lead with CPS serves as the umbrella under which leadership development programs will be aligned, eliminating silos between existing programs, and establishing a common vision and goals for creating diverse talent pipelines. Lead with CPS defines what leadership means at every level and provides transparent and equitable access to leadership opportunities that meet the needs of all employees, with a particular focus on recruiting and advancing African American and Latinx employees who are underrepresented among the district’s leadership, especially compared to the demographics of the students they serve. With a core commitment to equity, Lead with CPS aims to strategically recruit and prepare leaders of color and facilitate their advancement within the district.
Chiefs for Change: Future Chiefs
Entrepreneur: Mike Magee
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
Chiefs for Change (CFC) is a nonprofit network of diverse state and district education Chiefs dedicated to preparing all students for today’s world and tomorrow’s. The Future Chiefs program is a 12-month, cohort-based experience in which CFC recruits 8-10 high-potential “Future Chiefs” who are one to two steps removed from obtaining state or district Chief roles, develops them, and helps place them into Chief roles.
Children First Network
Entrepreneur: Shael Suransky
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
New York City Dept. of Education initiative called Children First Network was designed to integrate operational and instructional support for schools.
Citizens of the World Charter Schools
Entrepreneur: Kriste Dragon, Alison Kerr
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Citizens of the World schools develop sophisticated thinkers who master content and have a courageous and compassionate sense of responsibility for themselves and all people. They empower children to think critically and learn to engage respectfully and productively with fellow students by developing their capacity to enter into and understand the lives of others.
City on a Hill
Entrepreneur: Erica Brown
Nonprofit | Founded: 1995 | Visit the Site
City on a Hill Charter Public School is a college preparatory high school open to all students in Boston, MA. City on a Hill serves students who are traditionally underserved by the public school system.
ClassDojo
Entrepreneur: Sam Chaudhary, Liam Don
For-profit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
Funds supported ClassDojo’s in-classroom behavior management tool that helps teachers improve behavior and make class more engaging.
ClassWallet
Entrepreneur: Jamie Rosenberg
For-profit | Visit the Site
Funds supported ClassWallet’s integrated platform in which teachers can can collect and manage money, shop for education products, and keep track of spending.
Code Switch Restorative Justice for Girls of Color
Entrepreneur: Dr. Tonya Walls
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Code Switch Restorative Justice for Girls of Color (Code Switch) seeks to eradicate the inequities shaping the K-12 experiences of Black girls. Based on the belief that Black girls thrive when they feel seen, heard, and valued, Code Switch envisions K-12 schools as spaces where Black girls are free to be and become their authentic selves, are empowered to engage their unique ways of being, and are encouraged to imagine a future for themselves beyond the worlds they see before them.
